Afi Film Fest: A Window On Some Far Shores : Thursday

March 08, 1987|LEONARD KLADY and All AFI Film Festival of Los Angeles events will take place at the Los Feliz Theater, 1822 N. Vermont Ave., Hollywood, unless otherwise noted. Tickets are available at Ticketron, Teletron and at the box office one hour before showtime. Information: (213) 520-2000 , 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and | Klady is a Los Angeles - based film writer and reviewer. and

'38 (Austria, 1986, 12:30 p.m.). A foreign-language finalist at this year's Oscars, " '38" unravels in Vienna in the days prior to Austria's Nazification. The story concerns a politically illicit romance between a Jewish journalist and a noted Aryan actress, neither of whom wants to confront the imminent peril of their situation. Writer-director Wolfgang Gluck plumbs familiar Holocaust territory with assurance but little originality contrasting the outward serenity of the environment with the unceasing tragedy inherent in the social climate.